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Summer 2002
Medicine Tail Runaway
Bronze, by D. Michael Thomas
23 x 30 x 10, Edition of 38.
- Medicine Tail Runaway - by D. Michael Thomas
On the afternoon of June 25, 1876, during the battle of the Little Big Horn, Captain George W. Yates with companies E and F was ordered by Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer to attack the north end of the Indian Village at a point where Medicine Tail Coulee empties into the Little Big Horn River. A non-commissioned officer of company E, the famed 38-strong, gray horse troop, was seen charging across the river on a runaway horse and into the Indian Village.
A body was found near the village on June 28, 1876, although never positively identified as the missing officer. The fate of the gray horse is unknown. I, however, would like to believe it survived.
Source: Custer's Last Campaign by John S. Gray
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